Montesquieu - Discourses, Dissertations, and Dialogues on Politics, Science, and Religion

A vital resource for students of the Enlightenment. The volume provides English translations – the first in nearly all cases – of varied and insightful discourses, dissertations, and dialogues elaborating Montesquieu's evolving thinking on a wide variety of topics, many of which will be new and crucial to readers of his more canonical works.